Dell Laptop problem PCMCIA card SUSE 10 RC 1
Hi --this only seems to happen on a DELL laptop (Sony and Toshiba seem OK)
Wireless networking and PCMCIA cards (or Cardbus as I think they are now called).
1) If Card is NOT inserted at Boot time then you can't get any squeak out of the card afterwards -- No lights --nothing --didly squat -- So I think the PCMCIA driver or whatever has changed ( Hotplug ????)
So anybody got any ideas on how to start the card.
Now if you DO have the card in at boot time then the card is recognised, your router will display an assigned IP address for your computer but you can't get to the network via PING or logon to the Internet --even if you switch the firewall off.
The VAIO and Toshiba laptops seem to work fine
Note I've been using (without problems) the NDISWRAPPER and a Linksys WPC54g wireless PCMCIA (CARDBUS) card.
All 3 laptops worked OK with SUSE 10.0 Beta 4 but you DID have to insert the card in AFTER BOOT
So for Dell it seems 1 step forward and 2 backwards.
I think SUSE / Novell should pay me for the amount of testing I've been doing on these Betas.
Same problem on the DELL if you have a Microdrive / Camera flash card that you access with a PCMCIA card (rather than a USB Card Reader) -- Hot plug seems to be totally hosed up with PCMCIA cards.
Cheers
-K
Last edited by 1kyle; 09-11-2005 at 10:07 AM.
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